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Applications are welcomed in all Economics topics. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with research interests in the following speciality areas of our research-active staff:
Labour, Education and Health
- Affirmative action policies
- Discrimination and wellbeing
- Education economics
- Elections, political ideology, institutions and economic policy
- Gender differences in human capital accumulation
- Health, wellbeing and employment
- Healthcare and demographics
- Identity economics (gender, ethnicity, inequality)
- Immigration: causes and consequences
- Labour market transitions of (young) workers
- Social mobility
- Vocational education
- Wages, employment and contract type
- Wealth inequality and racial wealth gap
Behavioural Economics
- Analysis of conflict and conflict resolution
- Behavioural health economics and policy
- Behavioural labour and organisational economics
- Behavioural welfare economics (including subjective wellbeing)
- Charitable behaviour
- Decisions under risk and uncertainty
- Experimental and behavioural analyses of markets
- Economic Theory
- Bounded rationality
- Contests
- Economic dynamics
- Economic growth
- Environmental economics
- General equilibrium
- Imperfect competition
- International trade
- Networks
- Public economics
Household Finance
- Banking and financial stability
- Household financial vulnerability and asset accumulation
- Household portfolios
- Household saving
- Household wealth inequality
Macroeconomics
- Business Cycles
- Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Modelling
- Labour Market Dynamics
- Open Economy Macroeconomics
- Search and Matching
Time-series Econometrics
- Econometric detection of bubbles and crashes
- Specification testing and forecasting in non-linear Econometric/Time-Series models
- Theoretical econometrics and statistical inference
Urban, Trade and Environment
- Agglomeration economies
- Development economics
- Drivers of local productivity and growth
- Environmental economics and environmental policy
- Firms productivity
- Foreign aid and development finance institutions
- International trade and foreign direct investment
- Innovation and industrial policy
- Local and regional determinants of social mobility and inequality
- Local economic impacts and drivers of internal and external migration
- Local labour markets
- Real estate economics
- Trade policies and public economics
- Trade with heterogeneous firms
- Transport economics